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This publication introduces readers to the radical thought of variable span speech enhancement filters, and demonstrates the way it can be utilized for potent noise aid in numerous methods. extra, the ebook presents the accompanying Matlab code, permitting readers to simply enforce the most principles mentioned. Variable span filters mix the guidelines of optimum linear filters with these of subspace tools, as they contain the joint diagonalization of the correlation matrices of the specified sign and the noise.